Evolution of a Go program

About the development of Moyo Go Studio, software to (help) play the Oriental game of Go. Go is a two-player zero-sum game of perfect information. It is considered much harder than Chess. Currently, in spite of enormous effort expended, no computer program plays it above the level of a beginner.

Friday, February 24, 2006

Database Settings preview

With the recent addition of Fuseki search and the upcoming "free" pattern search, it became useful to be able to specify which databases should be searched by those functions.

Here is how - in the next update - the Database tab will look in the Settings dialog.

I have to apologize about the need to rebuild "Free Search" databases again with the next update. I decided to implement more functionality than Kombilo has, namely the ability to sort search results on player rank, date, komi etc. In order to be able to add this functionality, the databases have to change.
However, the new "Build database" Wizard will be easier to use, not requiring user interaction for every database.